War Quotes

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Only the dead have seen the end of the war.

The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

I have not yet begun to fight!

I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.

In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.